Okay.... so suddenly it's 2012 and I'm a working full-time musician living in a world surrounded by Tweets and FaceBook Posts. I have a Web Site, a Twitter Page and a Facebook Page. I get emails every day with invitations to join Linkedin, Plaxo, MyLife, Branch Out.....the list goes on and on.

Should I email you, text you, message you on Facebook, Send you a Tweet, or maybe FaceTime you? Oh wait.... how do I look?

I just woke up....

...where's the coffee (look in mirror)?

ok...

No FaceTime for sure !

I'm not complaining...just thinking about it out loud. The Internet and Social Media we have today are amazing! The technology at out finger tips is really crazy-good when you think about it!

I keep looking out my office window expecting to see George Jetson in his flying car whiz by!!!

So now I have another decision.

To Blog or not to Blog!??

What is a Blog anyway? (It sounds a little messy. Can it be cured with antibiotics? Is there a patch I can wear if I get addicted? Can I do it in public?)

When I post what I had for breakfast on Facebook, is that a Mini-Blog? 

What do I Blog about? My gigs, my dog, my mother, my impeccable sense of Fashion?

(no...Ix-nay on the Ashion-fay)

Well..... I guess I'll just figure it out as I go along............

..............I mean, I want everyone to know about my gigs and come out to my shows and sell a million CD's and uplift people with my music, but how much is too much????..........

Oh..hang on..... I have to go now....

....I'm getting a Hologram!

:)

-For Whitney Houston.

I was blown away by Jennifer Hudson's performance! Knowing how her family members were killed just a couple of years ago and all the loss she's gone through. I could just feel that she was LIVING the lyrics to that song! 

Imagine 24 hours earlier, she had no clue she would be singing Whitney's million selling trade-mark ballad as a tribute to Whitney herself. I got goose-bumps and teared-up.

I really liked how they showed all the talented musicians who had passed-on, who were not stars.
It was moving to see all them remembered.

Memo to Nicki Minaj: See Madonna's "Like a Prayer" video and her Concert performance of "Father"- She did the whole borderline-shocking blasphemous Catholic thing 20 years ago and...I don't want to be mean...but her songs were a lot better. Sorry- just didn't get the whole Exorcist meets Angela Landsbury tune.

Taylor Swift: I am a fan now! I LOVED the song you sang and your chutzpah! 

Katy Perry: YOU GO GIRL!

Tony Bennet and Carrie Underwood: CLASSY!

Bruno Mars: ROCKED THE HOUSE! Nice homage to James Brown, Prince & MJ.

Paul McCartney & Bruce Springsteen : AWESOME! Is it me or is the Boss looking more and more like an Italian these days! "FAH-GET- A- BOUT- IT!

Well it's 3 am and trying to wind down and go to sleep after a busy day! The day started with an early morning trip to the Vets to bring my Dalmatian Zak to get 3 lumps checked out. One of them I refer to as his "Freak Nipple". Yes, that's just what it looks like!

Luckily, they are all benign. :)

It's kind of weird to be counting your dog's nipples over and over then thinking..."How many nipples is a dog supposed to have??!!"

.....and deciding that God must have blessed him with an extra one.

But then that "Special" one keeps getting bigger and bigger until it looks like it's going to need it's own zip code.

(We'll be scheduling a procedure soon to say "bye-bye" to his little extra friend!)

After the vet visit....it was off to Winter Haven for an afternoon gig and then another tonight in Leesburg at Levi's. 

Off to St. Pete in the morning for a private party and then the Hard Rock on Saturday for another private gig.

So now it's time to let it all go....appreciate the blessings of the day and rest the saxophone fingers and lips......so I can be ready for tomorrow.

Tylenol PM or Herbal Tea? Hmmmmmm???? What do you think?

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